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Uptown Flicks: TEHACHAPI

  • Maysles 343 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY, 10027 United States (map)

IN CINEMA

Uptown Flicks:
TEHACHAPI
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price 
Wednesday, October 23rd at 7PM

Co-Presented with Uptown Flicks

JR, 2023, 92 min.

Over three years, French artist JR developed a large-scale artwork in a maximum-security prison in California in collaboration with those incarcerated at the institution. The project shows the power of art as a tool for hope and transformation in a systemically violent carceral system.

Well-known for his collages and giving a voice to the marginalized and unseen, JR is also the co-director of the Academy Award-nominated Faces Places with Agnès Varda. Questioning the limits of the US carceral system, Tehachapi is a rare, illuminating and moving feature documentary, showing how art can be a decisive means to reintegration and rehabilitation.

Post-screening cocktail reception to follow!